Team Germany and Taz fans, take note. And I submit this for further evidence that, for the most part, athletes should be seen and not heard. Happy Fourth of JUL-y, everyone! (In fairness, I admit that's about how my singing is.)
Oh, boy. Never knew there are people out there capable of singing more out of tune than I do. Happy July 8th!
I love that (arguably) the best striker in Europe right now is a virtual unkown & such a down to earth lass. She take the knocks and rolls with it (literally, if you know the latest)... Step forward:
if you say best 19-year-old striker methinks you in for a helluva nargument. best striker bar none? y'all sniffin glu.
i think a reasonable short list would include: anja mittag, marie-laure delie, veronica boquete, eugénie le sommer, ada hegerberg, lotta schelin, vivianne miedema, alexandra popp, gaêtane thiney, ramona bachmann, elodie thomis, and even marta. i have a couple of dozen more in mind but it would be presumptuous to claim they're better than reed without having watched reed play. the above however, can be listed with reasonable confidence sight unseen. mead may be very good. she could even be very, very, VERY, VERY good and remain a full notch behind any of them. the WSL has great potential but it's far from being the best league in europe right now; 8 goals in 8 games there have to be considered with a certain relativity.
So that means you're discounting Bachmann and Marta? It seems that while some are born free, others are born Sunderland supporters.
Bachwho? Malta? Showboating charlatans. It's about putting the ball in the back of the net, baby. (This is 'Rivalry' right? Where I'm allowed to tease playfully while things are good and be too busy to post when things go awry. I mean, I haven't accidentally stumbled upstairs into a blinkered hornet's nest of Oooosa orgies & Lloyd lovers have I?) And I didn't get born this way, I chose this shit!
You mean the showboating charlatan Bachmann who is currently (joint) top scorer in the Swedish league? Ah, bless. My mum told me to be nice to people like you, because you couldn't help it. "The (Sunderland) stripes never disappear" is the Swedish version of "a leopard can't change its spots" .
I have generally maintained the argument that the Damallsvenskan is the second most competitive league in the Europe (used to be the best) but now I'm going to blindly challenge that (and ignore any Champions League-based evidence AKA facts) status. Where did Sweden finish in the WWC? Of course, I'm being a bit silly but is it too much to expect the WSL to have jumped markedly in standard after more players have gone full time (some only in the last 8 weeks or so)? Can't be far behind? Just as mini matter of info, Mead spent pre-season and the start of the season training with the men's U18s/U21s because she was one of the only players (other than GK) in full time at that point. It benefitted her game considerably. And I like the Swedish saying better!
I present for your consideration the following Cerebral Delights. Here is a link to a looong radio interview with Nilla Fischer. There's some good stuff in here*, but it's in Swedish.(therefore taking me a while to get through...) The most relevant thing that happens – relevant to recent conversation about Badly Sung National Anthems anyway – is in English: please zip to the ~7:30 mark to hear Fischer's rendition of the first few lines of the Stars and Stripes. She almost gets the words right to the first line (what's a negative adverb here or there, more or less, between friends), but then has to hum a few bars and fake it. I think her singing voice might possibly be slightly better than Hingst, but the sample is really too small to know for sure. *married at Vadstena?! those are some fantastic nuns, despite/because of their ridiculous headgear.
More radio monologue than interview? isn't it. Part of the popular Swedish Summer radio show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommar_(radio_program)
Wait, is she the one Marta bawled out for smoking so much? (Could explain her nickname 'Rasta-mona'.) Suck, jajajaja, javisst och en ja till. 'Monologue' sounds a tad stuffy or old-fashioned to me (like in a stage play), especially for something that starts out "what a fukcing skit piece of crap that World Cup was" (seriously, I'm not exaggerating that), and that talks about Twoo Wuv so much, but I can't think of any better single-word descriptor offhand. As long as I'm mea culping, the 7:30 mark for tha national anthem is in the short version 'utan musik', not the long version.